On Call

[klytus.livejournal.com]

So I get this great new job, right? I'm doing mor ewhands-on tech support than just talking to folks on the phone - which I still do, BTW. Anyway, my 4th week on the job, I get to be the "on call" guy. You know, the one who gets calls after hours when the manure hits the windmil? Well the other guys on the desk led me to believe it was fairly light duty.

Liars.

I thnk there were two night last week where I did NOT get a call after hours. On Saturday, I get a call at 6:45 AM. And today (Sunday) my phone started ringing at 8am and only stopped sometime around 7pm. Some kind of server/power outage at HQ. No, I didn;t have to go into work, but I needed to call the folks who did, and then all the other calls and pages from the folks who couldn;t get work done. Yep - there are THAT many people in our company trying to get work done on a SUNDAY.

What have I gotten myself into?

At least I'm only on-call for a week at a time - and my next turn isn't for another 4 weeks.